Rockaway, Queens

The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is the name of a peninsula on Long Island, New York, all of which is located within the New York Cityborough of Queens. A popular summer resort area since the 1830s, Rockaway has become a mixture of lower, middle, and upper-class neighborhoods. Its relative isolation from the urban areas of the city, especially Manhattan, has traditionally made it a popular summer retreat. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14. As of January 1, 2007, the peninsula's total population is estimated to be just below 130,000. Rockaway is entirely in New York's 5th congressional district represented by Congressman Gregory Meeks. All ZIP codes in Rockaway begin with 116- and the central post office is in Far Rockaway.

Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City, geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (behind Brooklyn), with a census-estimated 2,321,580 residents in 2014, approximately 48% of them foreign-born. Queens County is also the second-most populous county in New York, behind the neighboring borough of Brooklyn, which is coterminous with Kings County. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated county among New York City's boroughs, as well as in the United States. If each New York City borough were an independent city, Queens would also be the nation's fourth most populous city, after Los Angeles, Chicago and Brooklyn. Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.

Rockaway, Queens

The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is the name of a peninsula on Long Island, New York, all of which is located within the New York Cityborough of Queens. A popular summer resort area since the 1830s, Rockaway has become a mixture of lower, middle, and upper-class neighborhoods. Its relative isolation from the urban areas of the city, especially Manhattan, has traditionally made it a popular summer retreat. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14. As of January 1, 2007, the peninsula's total population is estimated to be just below 130,000. Rockaway is entirely in New York's 5th congressional district represented by Congressman Gregory Meeks. All ZIP codes in Rockaway begin with 116- and the central post office is in Far Rockaway.

Officers shot the 15-year-old boy Friday night after he allegedly refused to drop a gun he had been firing into a dispersing crowd in FarRockaway, the NYPD said. An attempted murder charge was filed Saturday against a 15-year-old boy whom cops shot Friday in Far Rockaway, Queens — allegedly after he refused to drop a gun he had been firing into a dispersing crowd, the NYPD said....

Techno-poet, Gothic futurist, graffiti artist, rapper, philosopher or… an equation? Such are the diverse and eccentric descriptions of Rammellzee, a cult figure in the New York hip-hop scene who died in 2010 aged just 49 ... Rammellzee started out in the late 1970s tagging the A train in FarRockaway, Queens, where he grew up, but this period of his career was short lived and remains relatively undocumented ... “Jean-Michel blew up so fast ... ....

The plan is to improve traffic flow and flood mitigation on the expressway between RockawayTurnpike and Burnside Avenue, and at its intersections with Bay and Peninsula boulevards ...Long Island officials have mounted a separate campaign to have the traffic signals along Rockaway Turnpike, in Nassau County, which runs perpendicular to Route 878, and RockawayBoulevard, at the Queens border, synchronized, also for better traffic flow ... ....

Cops ordered the temporary evacuation of the Resorts WorldCasino in Queens Friday following a bomb threat, officials said. Workers at the Rockaway Blvd. gambling mecca near JFK Airport received a phone call about 10.30 a.m. by someone who claimed that he had left a bomb inside the building. Gamblers... ....

We’ve gone from our first president who, legend tells us, could not tell a lie, to the current incumbent who can do nothing but ...Believe me, if the deep state really existed in the way Donald Trump and his fans believe, if it was as effective and all-powerful as it is in their fever dreams and fantasies, our Mayhem-in-Chief would be back in Queens by now, lucky to find a job selling aluminum siding and timeshares in the Rockaways....

“For the same cost of a subway ride, New Yorkers that live and work in these communities will now have a fast, affordable and convenient way to get around the city.” NYCFerry launched in May 2017 and has served more than 5 million passengers on its four current routes to Astoria, South Brooklyn, Rockaway and along the East River....